Unless I hear
God’s beating HeartInside my heart of aspiration,
How can I ever seeGod’s loving and guiding Hands?
```He sees that he was totally wrong.
His Master’s compassion-eyeDoes love him,
Plus need him. ```If humanity really understood
The importance of a gratitude-heart,Then humanity would walk much faster,
And much more safely,Towards its destined goal.
```Whose stupid mind has told you
That your Master, although near you,Is far away?
Whose insecure heart has told you
That your Master, although he loves everyone,Does not love you?
```His earnest and determined resolve
Has blotted outAll his previous deplorable mistakes.
```You may withdraw
To your secret cell,But do not dare to expect
Any happiness whatsoever. ```You have become a problem for yourself
Because you do not care to knowThe beauty and duty
Of God’s Vision-Self in you. ```Unless we consciously and lovingly
Feed our hopes daily,All our promises to Heaven and earth
Will remain unfulfilled. ```I declare resolutely
That we gain everythingBy accepting God’s Vision-Reality in us
And lose nothingBy avoiding temptation-nets.
```I never need
The cry of ignorance-sleep,But I do need
The smile of silver dreams. ```How to use the spiritual energy
You get from meditation?Do not use it all immediately.
It is like your hard-earnedEarthly wealth.
If you treasure it and keep it safe,You will be able to bring it forward
At God’s choice Hour,To please God in His own Way.
```How many books have been written
About the spiritual Masters!But the most important events in their lives
Are not to be foundIn these accounts.
For them, the only true biographyIs the inner biography,
Where every hour of every dayWould fill countless pages.
```The West gets satisfaction
From large-scale things.The nature of Japan
Is diametrically opposite.It likes to create things
Tinier than the tiniestAnd capture the Infinite Supreme
Inside finite man-made forms.Therein lies Japan’s
Message of perfection. ```In America
Things are quite often massive.In Japan
Things are quite often diminutive.Both embody equally
The Satisfaction of the Supreme. ```The river may be crossed
Either in a vast steamshipOr in a tiny boat.
If we take many individual boats,We may reach the shore sooner
Than if we wait for all the passengersTo fill a huge steamship.
With this approachJapan has touched her goal.
```Outside: water,
Soothing and soft.Inside: only
Determination-fire.Such is
The Japanese nature. ```The Japanese nature
Is a very good combination.The outer nature
Is like a lion resting.The inner nature
Is like a lion roaring.Both are extremely powerful.
```God’s choice Hour
Will wait for no one,Not even for a fraction of a second.
No seeker may claim or preserveGod’s choice Hour
At his sweet will.The seeker must ensure
That he is availableWhenever God’s Hour strikes,
At any time of day or night. ```In your outer life
If you can feelConsciously and soulfully happy
Even while doingOrdinary, mundane things,
God will consider thisYour real meditation.
```Wherever you are,
Whatever you are doing,Try to be really happy!
Your psychic happinessWill help you maintain
A pure and soulful consciousness. ```If you are enjoying yourself
In the excitement-world,God will not consider it
As part of your meditation.Soulful happiness,
Integral happiness,Lies elsewhere.
```The spiritual Master has come
For no other reasonThan to give
His spiritual children joy,And they in turn have come
To give their Master joy.It is meditation that serves
As the golden bridge between them. ```Obedience is not humiliation.
Obedience is not submissiveness.Obedience is one’s amazingly profitable union
With one’s own higher self. ```Unless my heart is grateful,
How can my mind be faithful?Unless my mind is faithful,
How can my life be fruitful? ```You value neither your aspiration-heart
Nor your dedication-life.Perhaps you do not know that
Whether you value them or not,Whether others value them or not,
Your Beloved Supreme will always valueHis precious gifts to you
And hope that you will use themCarefully, devotedly, soulfully
And sleeplessly. ```You cannot expect abiding joy,
You cannot expect any kind of joy,Unless you have unmistakably and soulfully
Accepted the fact that your spiritual lifeNot only has the joy that you need
But also is joy,Far, far beyond the need
Of your entire life here on earth. ```Time the destroyer
Cannot touch himBecause he is already devotedly seated
At the Protection-FeetOf his Beloved Supreme.
```My Supreme Lord,
I shall not accept any defeat,Not because my ego-life
Cannot accept defeat,But because Your transcendental Will
Does not want me ever to accept defeat on earth.It is Your Will that You are executing
In and through me,Your dauntless instrument.
```Many have come
Into the Supreme’s Golden Boat;Many have left.
Many have appearedAnd many have disappeared.
Many are outwardly following the spiritual life,But inwardly they are elsewhere,
Millions of miles away.Again, some seekers are inwardly with God,
But outwardly they want to lead another life —A life of lethargy, indulgence, disobedience,
Unconscious if not conscious self-deception,Plus self-mockery.
```The spiritual life is arduous.
But the sincere seekers,Who will ultimately hold
The banners of divine LightAnd supreme Delight,
Will forever and forever remain faithfulTo their inner Captain.
```For the faithful ones
There is no defeat,There can be no defeat.
For the unfaithful onesThere is no victory,
There can be no victory. ```My Beloved Supreme,
You want me to watchThe unfaithful seekers.
I am watching them.You want me to wait for them.
I am waiting for them.Again, it is You who have told me
That there shall come a timeWhen You will ask me to put an end
To my watching and waiting games.Then You will give me a new game to play:
The game of justice-light. ```When a spiritual Master
Plays the game of justice-lightAt God’s express Command,
Very few seekers —They can be counted on one’s fingertips —
Will remain in the Boat of the Supreme. ```No other weakness
Is as damaging and destructiveAs deliberate disobedience.
Those who indulgeIn deliberate disobedience
Already have one foot in their spiritual grave,And the other foot
Is fast approaching. ```I shall soulfully do my duty:
I shall illumine my heart.God will cheerfully do His Duty:
He will perfect my life. ```Each uncomely and undivine thought
Wanders restlessly inside my mind’sTiny, unlit cave.
Each pure and flower-like thoughtGrows and glows inside my heart’s
Mightiest kingdom. ```The animal in me thinks
That it does not needAnything from God.
The human in me thinks
That it needsOnly a few things from God.
The divine in me feels and knows
That it needsEverything and everything from God,
Only from God. ```The new year has commenced
Its momentous journey today.From today on, during the entire year,
I shall not offer my volcano-ambitionTo the world.
I shall offer the worldOnly my moonlit heart’s flaming aspiration.
```My Lord Supreme,
May the birth of the new yearHerald Your supreme Victory
In and through Your obedient, self-givingAnd satisfaction-loving children.
```Each new year
The seeker comes to learnHow far away the mind is
From God’s CompassionAnd how close the heart is
To God’s Satisfaction. ```My mind may not know
What others can or willDo for me.
But my heart knowsWhat I should and must
Do for others. ```No rhyme, no reason —
O anxiety-cruelty,You torture me,
My simple mindAnd even my pure heart.
```Argument and enlightenment
Purposely and eternally remainStrangers to each other.
```Two totally dissatisfied friends:
Blindness and uselessness.Two fully satisfied friends:
Openness and fulness. ```To unburden
The burden of knowledgeCan never be
A simple and easy task. ```Bitterness yields to sweetness
Only when onenessIs discovered and manifested.
```Nothing can collapse in life
If the faith-foundationRemains unshakably firm.
```Self-deception
Is the beginning of dangerIn the mind
And the beginning of destructionIn the heart.
```A complaint
Quite oftenUnconsciously arouses
A sleeping frustration-doom. ```The corruption of the vital
Puzzles the mind.The corruption of the mind
Starves the heart. ```Desire-life
Withers our flower-heart,Weakens our searching mind
And imprisons our earth-life. ```When my consciousness descends,
I starve the divine in me,Resume my old friendship
With the human in meAnd am once more tempted
To dance with the animal in me. ```In the ordinary life
Emptiness is nothing short of barrenness.In the spiritual life
Emptiness marks the glorious beginningOf an unprecedented fulness.
```You will not and cannot
Suffer from the blowsOf insufficiency
If you learn how to smileSoulfully and unreservedly.
```Misfortune dogs your steps
Because you enjoyThe bewildering images
Of life’s illusions. ```My surrender-life
Is a secret planOf God the Compassion.
My gratitude-heart
Is a sacred placeOf God the Perfection.
```If you really want to be happy,
Then discard once and for allYour connection with
Your impure vitalAnd
Your obscure mind. ```The moment his vision-eye
Reached Heaven,He saw God’s Bliss-bestowing Hands
All ready. ```I hate my mind
Because it knowsOnly how to preach.
I love my heart
Because it knowsOnly how to persuade.
```O lovers of the past,
Leave asideYour ancient mistakes!
Live in the happiness-heartOf the Eternal Now!
```Only the chosen few
Can escape life’s false realitiesAnd live in Eternity’s
Golden Day. ```You may use
Your suspicious mindBefore you love the outer world,
But you must useYour believing heart
Before you love the inner world. ```Today you are afraid
To do the right thing.Tomorrow God will think
A million timesBefore He will grant you
Another chance to do the right thing. ```If you want to be happy
In your own way,God will not mind.
He will just tell you:“My child,
I shall not criticise you.But I can’t assure you
That I shall be at all happyIn My own Way.”
```Today you are facing
A big decision:Whether you will continue surrendering
To the ignorance-night around youOr whether you will start surrendering
Right from todayTo the wisdom-light within you.
```What do I see
Inside the creation?Perfect restlessness.
What do I seeInside that restlessness?
A perfect whisperFrom perfect stillness.
```Only Eternity can reveal
What man has.Only Immortality can manifest
What man is. ```If I see purity
Inside your heart,How can I misunderstand
The sincerity inside your mind? ```I may not learn anything
From what you are saying,But I shall definitely learn
Something truly importantBy observing what you do.
```You can have perfect peace
Only when you can haltYour mind’s journey
At God’s Forgiveness-Feet. ```The entire world
Is expert at playingThe self-satisfaction-game.
But it pretendsThat playing this game
Is beneath its dignity. ```“God is all Love.”
“I am all for Him.”These are the thoughts
A seeker can cherish.All other thoughts
He should consider asSheer distractions.
```Beauty does not have to explain
Its existence in the outer world.Purity does not have to explain
Its existence in the inner world.Divinity does not have to explain
Its existence in God’s universe. ```Those who are ready to struggle
While aspiringAre bound to find
Permanent happiness. ```I may be wrong
When I say he is fooling himself,But I am absolutely correct
When I feel I am fooling myself. ```Inside the cave of the mind
Man’s greatness talks to the world.Inside the palace of the heart
Man’s goodness talks to God. ```The mind does not see darkness
Even when darkness has engulfedIts entire existence.
The heart feels delight
Even when delightIs in the heart of someone else.
```My Lord Supreme says to me:
“My child,I love you, good or bad.
Just do not consciously enjoyAny more
Your ignorance-sleep.” ```You are seeing the sunrise
Inside your aspiration-heart.Who knows,
In a few daysGod may appear before you —
Perhaps today! ```Self-glory
I choose for myself.Self-discovery
God chooses for me. ```Do you want
To change the world?If so, then come to me
For some special advice.Are you trying
To change yourself?If so, then I am immediately
Coming to youFor some special advice.
```An unawakened mind thinks
That it can do everything.An awakened heart feels and knows
That only God does everythingIn and through it.
```What a strange experience!
You are afraid of the lightThat is trying to illumine you,
But you are not afraid of the darknessThat is devouring you.
```Only a false spiritual Teacher
Thinks and feelsThat he alone is perfect,
And that the restOf the spiritual Teachers
Are all false. ```You lack the courage to say
What you want to say,Yet you have the audacity
To criticise others,Even when they say
Absolutely the right thing. ```Imagination has power.
Imagination is power.Therefore, be sure to have
A good and elevating imagination. ```When I want to change
My outer life,God uses His Vision-Eye
To smile at me.When I want to change
My inner life,
God uses His Reality-HeartTo embrace me.
```In a fraction of a second
He saw into my heartAnd told me that I shall become
A perfect Truth-seekerAnd
A perfect God-lover. ```My present life
Of hopeful promiseIs a song of Eternity.
```To my heart’s extreme joy,
My searching mind no longerAccepts the false as true.
```In public he openly says
That he knows nothing.In his heart he secretly insists
That he knows everything. ```To rise above ourselves
Means to go far aboveOur stupidity-head
And sit at the Compassion-FeetOf our Beloved Supreme.
```Do not keep inside you
The confusion-mindIf you want to achieve
An illumination-heart. ```An impure mind thinks
That there can beNo pure heart.
A pure heart feels
That everything is pure,Including the mind.
```You cannot even give
A single soulful smile.Yet you tell the whole world
Not only what to doBut also how to do it.
```Be not afraid of your emptiness.
Your emptiness is preparing itselfTo receive God’s Fulness
From God Himself. ```You think you have escaped
From ignorance-slavery.Can you not ask God
If you are correct? ```Each undivine, unaspiring
And ugly thought of yoursPinches others for a minute
And then comes back to youTo box your nose for an hour.
```My mind’s simplicity
Helps me pray sincerely.My heart’s sincerity
Helps me meditate soulfully. ```My Beloved Supreme lovingly
And compassionately whispers,“My child, are you Mine,
Are you only Mine,Or are you for ignorance-night as well?”
The human in me tells my Lord Supreme,“O Lord, give me some time
To think it over and decide.”The divine in me immediately responds,
“My Beloved Supreme, I am for You,Only for You.
Throughout Your own EternityI shall be for You, for You alone.
Do mould me, shape me and guide meTo fulfil Yourself in and through me
In Your own Way.” ```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 59, Agni Press, 1983
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